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I finally saw this movie over the summer - I bought the DVD for $4 from a closing Blockbuster and watched it with some friends. It's only been a few months, but I find I don't remember a whole lot of it. Maybe it wasn't as memorable, or I'm just more cynical since I didn't the see movie as a kid like I did with the first three.

I think this was the first movie to incorporate CGI, and I found it very weird and jarring. Good on them for trying, I suppose, but it just didn't fit, especially CGI Suicune. Only making the evil plant-Celebi-thing CGI would make sense - it's unnatural, thus it looks weird and jarring, that makes sense. But not Suicune.

I knew that Sammy was Professor Oak before years before seeing the movie, so there wasn't any pleasant surprise in it for me. Rather, I found it a little weird that Oak still sees Ash as a close friend even though Ash hardly knows the older Samuel. I wonder if he should have eventually told Ash about it after Ash meets Celebi (a la Back to the Future), but the whole situation just gives me creepy vibes, so I guess it's better that Ash doesn't know.

Definitely not my favourite Pokemon movie. It just seemed so...bland and unexiting to me. I am a fan of Celebi, but that wasn't enough to get me interested in the story. I mean, when Celebi died or whatever my reaction was "meh".

Also, I couldn't help but feel creeped out between Ash's relationship with young Prof. Oak. O_o

I finally saw this movie over the summer - I bought the DVD for $4 from a closing Blockbuster and watched it with some friends. It's only been a few months, but I find I don't remember a whole lot of it. Maybe it wasn't as memorable, or I'm just more cynical since I didn't the see movie as a kid like I did with the first three.

I think this was the first movie to incorporate CGI, and I found it very weird and jarring. Good on them for trying, I suppose, but it just didn't fit, especially CGI Suicune. Only making the evil plant-Celebi-thing CGI would make sense - it's unnatural, thus it looks weird and jarring, that makes sense. But not Suicune.

I knew that Sammy was Professor Oak before years before seeing the movie, so there wasn't any pleasant surprise in it for me. Rather, I found it a little weird that Oak still sees Ash as a close friend even though Ash hardly knows the older Samuel. I wonder if he should have eventually told Ash about it after Ash meets Celebi (a la Back to the Future), but the whole situation just gives me creepy vibes, so I guess it's better that Ash doesn't know.

For a Pokemon movie, it was all right.

~Psychic

Oh lord I know what you mean! I didn't see this one as a kid as well, so all of the surprises, weren't really surprises at all. That said, I was tempted to by the dvd once, but decided not to.. I guess don't really miss it :P

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This movie's not bad, it reminds me of a fairy tale. The time travel aspect is cool. CGI hasn't aged well, but some stuff, like the opening battle, couldn't have been done without it. Ash trying to feed Celebi was sad.

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I've always liked this movie. It had awesome music and scenes. I liked how Sammy was actually Professor Oak. And his Poke Ball was a little interesting. xD So, Charmander was his Starter Pokemon? That makes me wonder what happened to it? Did it possibly die or something? I guess we'll never know. The scene where Celebi died was so sad. I didn't like when Sammy tried to put the berry inside Celebi's mouth, but he couldn't. Overall, it was an excellent movie.

9/10 also one of my faves.
do you know how long i looked for a dark ball in my sappire after watching this?
and then when i got my celebi from the pokemon 10th anniversary convention i was hoping that it was going to be in a dark ball. (i was soooooo bummed when it wasnt)
I also was obsessed with movies that involved time traves so that made it all the better.

Also, I couldn't help but feel creeped out between Ash's relationship with young Prof. Oak. O_o

Why? It's not like Sam knew he was going to one day be a professor in Ash's home town, just like Ash didn't know Sam would one day grow up to be the Professor. During this movie they're just two kids (who clearly have major crushes on each other). If it makes you feel weird about the Older Professor Oak's continuing interest in Ash, that makes more sense, but I think people (not you specifically) get too worked up about it.

I like this one, I think it's short and sweet in every sense of the word.

Always love to see Onix get the job done.

Celebi's nightmare monster inspired by being attacked by Scyther/Scizor?

this was defintetly a good movie, by the way i hate to state the obvious but how much do you want to bet that the dark pokemon in this movie was where the idea for shadow pokemon came from?
and in other news i personally would mind if they made another movie like this with a similar plot.

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This movie was okay, but not as good as movie 3. The full version of "Born to be a Winner" was great! Seeing both Celebi and Suicune in the same movie was cool.

The Celebi-tree-monster-thing was huge! It's sad how Celebi had to got trapped inside that thing because of the evil 'Iron-masked' Team Rocket member. It was awesome when Ash and Sammy were able to rescued it, but it began to die! Even though Suicune purifyied the lake, it didn't brought back Celebi. Ash tried to feed Celebi some berries, but it didn't work as well. Finally some other Celebi came through time to save the dying Celebi, it was a great scene.

It's surprising that 4kids went through the trouble of adding some English-exclusive scenes in this movie, I guess they wanted to make sure to the viewers about Sammy being Professor Oak.

I finally saw this movie over the summer - I bought the DVD for $4 from a closing Blockbuster and watched it with some friends. It's only been a few months, but I find I don't remember a whole lot of it. Maybe it wasn't as memorable, or I'm just more cynical since I didn't the see movie as a kid like I did with the first three.

I think this was the first movie to incorporate CGI, and I found it very weird and jarring. Good on them for trying, I suppose, but it just didn't fit, especially CGI Suicune. Only making the evil plant-Celebi-thing CGI would make sense - it's unnatural, thus it looks weird and jarring, that makes sense. But not Suicune.

I knew that Sammy was Professor Oak before years before seeing the movie, so there wasn't any pleasant surprise in it for me. Rather, I found it a little weird that Oak still sees Ash as a close friend even though Ash hardly knows the older Samuel. I wonder if he should have eventually told Ash about it after Ash meets Celebi (a la Back to the Future), but the whole situation just gives me creepy vibes, so I guess it's better that Ash doesn't know.

For a Pokemon movie, it was all right.

~Psychic

This may have been the first movie to use CG for character animation, but it was not the first to use CGI. In the international release of the first movie, CG was used for moving backgrounds, the arena's doors, and FX animation. In the second, the bad guy's sky-platform was CG. The 3rd movie used CG backgrounds to create moving backgrounds for Charzard/Enti's battle and for a few other scenes. The 3rd movie also used some CG-morphing to show the crystal spires growing.

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I for one loved this movie. (and not just because Suicune is one of the main Pokemon) It's one of the reasons I spent money having a custom giant Suicune made!^_^ I plan to get the artbook for this movie as well!

This and the jirachi movie are my favorite pokemon movies... i find it funny that ash met oak before when he was a little kid and oak meets ash when he was born and oak was old then so yeah time travel celebi did all of this